• Last week of EmacsConf 2023 Call for Participation
• Emacs 29, 30:
  • What's New in Emacs 29.1? - Mastering Emacs (HN)
  • Next revolutionary changes in Emacs
  • GNU Emacs 29.1 Released! How to Install in Ubuntu 22.04 via PPA | UbuntuHandbook
  • Why you shouldn't use Emacs 30.0.50
• Upcoming events:
  • OrgMeetup (virtual) https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2023-08/msg00591.html Wed Sep 13 0900 America/Vancouver - 1100 America/Chicago - 1200 America/Toronto - 1600 Etc/GMT - 1800 Europe/Berlin - 2130 Asia/Kolkata – Thu Sep 14 0000 Asia/Singapore (announcement, communick.news)
  • Mastering Emacs book club https://susam.net/maze/meet/mastering-emacs/ Fri Sep 15 1200 America/Vancouver - 1400 America/Chicago - 1500 America/Toronto - 1900 Etc/GMT - 2100 Europe/Berlin – Sat Sep 16 0030 Asia/Kolkata - 0300 Asia/Singapore
  • Mastering Emacs book club https://susam.net/maze/meet/mastering-emacs/ Sat Sep 16 0200 America/Vancouver - 0400 America/Chicago - 0500 America/Toronto - 0900 Etc/GMT - 1100 Europe/Berlin - 1430 Asia/Kolkata - 1700 Asia/Singapore
  • Mastering Emacs book club https://susam.net/maze/meet/mastering-emacs/ Sun Sep 17 0200 America/Vancouver - 0400 America/Chicago - 0500 America/Toronto - 0900 Etc/GMT - 1100 Europe/Berlin - 1430 Asia/Kolkata - 1700 Asia/Singapore
  • M-x Research (contact them for password): TBA https://m-x-research.github.io/ Wed Sep 20 0800 America/Vancouver - 1000 America/Chicago - 1100 America/Toronto - 1500 Etc/GMT - 1700 Europe/Berlin - 2030 Asia/Kolkata - 2300 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs.si (in person): Emacs.si meetup #9 2023 (#online) https://dogodki.kompot.si/events/47146cdc-e3fe-4933-9087-31cc34fb46f9 Fri Sep 22 2000 CET (announcement)
  • Mastering Emacs book club https://susam.net/maze/meet/mastering-emacs/ Fri Sep 22 1200 America/Vancouver - 1400 America/Chicago - 1500 America/Toronto - 1900 Etc/GMT - 2100 Europe/Berlin – Sat Sep 23 0030 Asia/Kolkata - 0300 Asia/Singapore
  • Emacs APAC (virtual) https://emacs-apac.gitlab.io/ Sat Sep 23 0130 America/Vancouver - 0330 America/Chicago - 0430 America/Toronto - 0830 Etc/GMT - 1030 Europe/Berlin - 1400 Asia/Kolkata - 1630 Asia/Singapore (announcement)
  • Mastering Emacs book club https://susam.net/maze/meet/mastering-emacs/ Sat Sep 23 0200 America/Vancouver - 0400 America/Chicago - 0500 America/Toronto - 0900 Etc/GMT - 1100 Europe/Berlin - 1430 Asia/Kolkata - 1700 Asia/Singapore
  • Mastering Emacs book club https://susam.net/maze/meet/mastering-emacs/ Sun Sep 24 0200 America/Vancouver - 0400 America/Chicago - 0500 America/Toronto - 0900 Etc/GMT - 1100 Europe/Berlin - 1430 Asia/Kolkata - 1700 Asia/Singapore
• Beginner:
  • How to learn Emacs - About this guide to Emacs (2012, HN)
  • emacs command | Linux ZERO TO ADVANCE | Linux video series 64 #linux #opensource #devops #sysadmin (10:01)
  • Introduction to Emacs and reading RSS feeds in Emacs | TossConf2023 | Online Talk 12 | தமிழில் (39:46)
  • Emacs Digit Bindings And Their Facility 2023_09_09_08:15:28 (11:38)
• Emacs configuration:
  • Caveat on using use-package with straight.el - straight-use-package-by-default, :straight nil for exceptions
  • Easily repeat Emacs functions: a repeat post (Reddit)
  • Configuring my Emacs. Vim users are not invited!
  • 21天学会Emacs之第21天：优化配置性能以及后续学习建议 (23:43)
  • Vim->Emacs veterans without vim emulation: do you feel you're actually more efficient at modifying text with emacs bindings?
  • emacs-bedrock: Stepping stones to a better Emacs experience (HN, communick.news, Irreal)
  • Spartan Emacs (Reddit)
• Emacs Lisp:
  • John McCarthy’s collection of numerical facts for use in elisp programs (Reddit, communick.news)
  • Alvaro Ramirez: Inline previous result and why you should edebug (Reddit)
  • Sacha Chua: EmacsConf backstage: converting timezones
  • How to copy the current line below in Emacs Lisp? | buffer-substring, save-excursion, forward-line (02:14)
  • How to swap elements in vectors in Emacs Lisp? | cl-rotatef (02:14)
  • How to manipulate vectors in Emacs Lisp? | vector, aref, aset, seq-copy (02:17)
  • How to get the content in buffers in Emacs Lisp? | buffer-substring (02:02)
  • How to replace regexp in buffers in Emacs Lisp? | re-search-forward - replace-match (02:06)
  • How to manipulate the match data in Emacs Lisp? | match-string - replace-match (02:15)
• Appearance:
  • Kinneyzhang/rich-text: Emacs rich text package. (Reddit, demo and Reddit thread)
  • jdtsmith/indent-bars: Fast, configurable indentation guide-bars for Emacs (Reddit)
  • Prettifying LaTeX Buffers (Reddit) - prettify-symbols
  • sandcastle-theme: light mid(low) contrast yellowish background theme
• Navigation:
  • Popper is on ELPA (Popup buffers for Emacs)
  • Smartscan package for Emacs #emacs #coding (00:35)
  • Sacha Chua: EmacsConf backstage: jumping to and working with talks using Embark
• Dired:
  • How to run a unix utility on file at point in dired in Emacs Lisp? | dired-file-name-at-point (02:17)
  • Highlight changes in wdired mode in Emacs #emacs #coding (00:28)
• Org Mode:
  • Org-journal stays
  • Hiding scheduled TODO items in Org-mode
  • Interactively select subdirectory for new Org file / capture
  • One-Octet: Présentation d'Org-mode
  • Release v0.7.1 · alphapapa/org-ql (Reddit)
  • 21天学会Emacs之第18天：org mode 进阶 (25:46)
  • 21天学会Emacs之第19天：Org roam介绍与基本用法 (21:28)
  • Let's Talk About the Story of Metanote and Free Software
  • Org development:
    • lisp/ob-lilypond.el: refactor org-babel-lilypond-compile-lilyfile
• Coding:
  • emacs-reformatter: Define commands which run reformatters on the current Emacs buffer
  • Emerging from dotemacs bankruptcy the hard way: integrating the IDE (feat. Clojure(Script))
  • dlachausse/erlmacs: Simple script to update your .emacs file for Erlang development (HN)
  • emacs-build-farm: Interface for Hydra and Cuirass (Nix and Guix build farms)
  • JonathanHope/mermaid-ts-mode: Emacs Major Mode for Mermaid Using Tree Sitter (Reddit)
  • Andrey Listopadov: Migrating from LSP-Mode to Eglot (lobste.rs)
  • es-mode: An Emacs major mode for interacting with Elasticsearch
  • Vue-ts-mode, major mode for vue files based on tree-sitter (Reddit)
  • Is treesitter worth it?
• Shells:
  • Blurring the lines between shell and editor
  • Toggling between ansi-term and eshell with the shell-pop package (Reddit)
  • Using emacs for the scrollback in terminal multiplexers (Reddit)
• Mail, news, and chat:
  • Release 0.3 · alphapapa/pocket-reader.el (Reddit)
  • Sacha Chua: EmacsConf backstage: capturing submissions from e-mails
• Multimedia:
  • Sacha Chua: EmacsConf backstage: scheduling with SVGs
• Community:
  • Weekly Tips, Tricks, &c. Thread - bookmarks
  • The passing of Thien-Thi Nguyen (in Oct 2022, recently learned) (Reddit, HN, emacs-devel)
  • Meta Redux: Clojure Support in Emacs: One Unnecessary Drama
  • ELS 2024, Vienna - European Lisp Symposium
• Other:
  • emacs-immersive-translate: Immersive-translate provides bilingual simultaneous display and translation of any text in Emacs. (Reddit)
  • Emacs tip: create new lines without RET #coding #emacs - next-line-add-newlines avoids end of buffer error (Irreal)
  • Christian Tietze: Kill Unsaved Emacs Buffers UX: Replacing Yes/No/Save with Meaningful Options (Irreal)
  • Emacs Notes: View info, texi, org and md files as Info manual
  • Alvaro Ramirez: SHA-256 hash from URL, the easy way
  • hyperdrive.el: P2P filesystem in Emacs
  • Emacs side windows for tree sitter, ednc and dict (25:13)
  • Fix the restart-emacs function in Emacs on Windows #emacs #coding (00:29)
• Emacs development:
  • emacs-devel:
    • tip: treesit-explore-mode and treesit-inspect-mode
    • note about tree-sitter language definitions with embedded C code
    • discussion about refactoring interface
    • built-in and optional external rules
    • discussion about using cl-lib in core
  • New command tramp-revert-buffer-with-sudo
  • `dired-next-line' movement style (bug#65621)
  • Add byte-compiler warning about useless trailing cond clauses
  • Permit XLFD names to exceed 255 characters
  • New minor mode 'minibuffer-regexp-mode'
  • (project-try-vc): When found non-VC project root, still search for the backend
  • * lisp/emacs-lisp/cl-lib.el (cl-old-struct-compat-mode): Mark as obsolete
  • Add 'appt-notification' face (Bug#61661)
  • Add `skip-when` macro to `ert-deftest`
• New packages:
  • all-the-icons-nerd-fonts: Nerd font integration for all-the-icons (MELPA)
  • breadcrumb: project and imenu-based breadcrumb paths (GNU ELPA)
  • flymake-guile: Guile flymake backend (NonGNU ELPA)
  • lem: A basic lemmy client (MELPA)
  • treebundel: Bundle related git-worktrees together (MELPA)
  • wavedrom-mode: WaveDrom Integration (MELPA)

Links from reddit.com/r/emacs, r/orgmode, r/spacemacs, r/planetemacs, Hacker News, lobste.rs, kbin, programming.dev, communick.news, lemmy, planet.emacslife.com, YouTube, the Emacs NEWS file, Emacs Calendar, and emacs-devel. Thanks to Andrés Ramírez for emacs-devel links. Do you have an Emacs-related link or announcement? Please e-mail me at sacha@sachachua.com. Thank you!